The Mendoza Family

Photoshoot!

2010-04-18T19:46:00.000-07:00

The Girls looked absolutely beautiful for their Photo session in March! The whole session was outside and inside of a local Laundry Mat! If anyone wants great family pic's Meg Singleton Photography is just great!

2009-12-28T12:55:00.000-08:00

Christmas Was a Blast!

2009-12-28T12:43:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone! The Mendoza family had a blast during Christmas this year! It was wonderful to wake up and open presents as a family! We went to my mom and dads house to open presents over there around 9:00am. Johnny and I got a new laptop and we're very excited about that! I then had to make 20lbs of mashed potatoes....Ugh! That was rough! But Christmas Dinner was great at my moms house! about 50 people and TONS of food! After dinner we ALL went to my Meme's house and opened more presents there...ya my house was a mess! Great Day!

Temple Day September 5, 2009

2009-10-25T11:55:00.001-07:00

The Girls looked beautiful at the Lubbock Temple!

We Finalized!!

2009-09-01T17:54:00.001-07:00

Adoption Finalization!

Adoption Finalization!!

2009-08-30T13:38:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone! Just thought we would let you know that this Tuesday September 1st we finalize the adoption of Raylynn. She will offically be named a Mendoza! The following Saturday September 5th we will take her the the Lubbock Temple to be sealed for time and all eternity!!!! YAY!!!

Sunday Afternoon with Family

2009-07-19T15:09:00.001-07:00

Here's Some of the latest Pic's of our little Family!

4th of July!

2009-07-04T09:25:00.001-07:00

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

We had a great morning getting ready for the fourth! Zion was going to be Lady Liberty, but we ended up just making a star with her hair. She looks like a real firework!!! Due to lack of hair, Raylynn got a cute bow!

Zion Goes to the Dentist!

2009-07-04T09:17:00.000-07:00

"HAPPY GAS FOR ZION!!"

Well, Zion has been to the dentist before to get her teeth cleaned...however this time she had a chipped tooth that turned into a small cavity. So she had to get "Happy Gas" and 2 shots. She did really well and was quite funny!!

Zion and Raylynn New Pic's

2009-04-29T10:50:00.001-07:00

Another....funny Story!

2009-04-19T13:53:00.000-07:00

Well just to let you know, we took some amazing picutures of little Raylynn, but I can't get the chip to work in the computer...so those are soon to come but for now,

The other day, Zion is singing "Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious" from Mary Poppins. After singing for a few minutes, she stops and looks up at me and says, "Man, Mary Poppins sure speaks good spanish!"

Funny Story!

2009-04-13T12:58:00.000-07:00

So the other day Zion was playing outside and on her way back inside she tripped and fell. Well Zion has always been a "tough" kid and doesn't cry hard or for very long when she hurts herself. So when she started to cry, I picked her up and naturally said, "Your okay Zion." Well apparently that was all it took for her to tell me how it was! She said in a very stern frustrated voice, "You Always say that!! YOUR OKAY, YOUR OKAY, well you don't know!" I bit my tounge and apologized and told her to tell me when she thought she was ok. She waited a little bit and then looked up at me and said, "I'm okay."

Photo Competition

2009-04-02T15:00:00.000-07:00

Zion is going to dance competition this weekend in Dallas, TX. She is so dang cute when she dances...You should see the cute little faces she makes! She will definently steal the show! We are also entering her into a Photo competition at the same place, here are some of the pic's!

We Are Home!!!

2009-03-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

Zion loves her new baby sister!! Her words were, "Mommy, we are never ever going to sell her!!"

She Get's it from her Daddy!

2009-03-27T09:19:00.000-07:00

So, while we are suck here in Louisiana, we walk around a lot. And it seems that everywhere we go someone always makes a comment about how little Raylynn looks just like her daddy. It is so true! I am blown away at how much Zion and Raylynn look like their dad. I guess I am just destined to have children that look like Johnny. No Matter What!

2009-03-26T06:48:00.000-07:00

New Pictures of Raylynn

2009-03-23T17:52:00.001-07:00

2009-03-23T17:46:00.001-07:00

raylynn bree mendoza 9 days old

2009-03-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

RAYLYNN'S HERE!!!!

I am going CRAZZYYY!

2009-03-22T17:56:00.000-07:00

So, It's the night before we get little Raylynn...and as you would assume, I am going nuts. I just want to fall asleep and wake up when she is here. But knowing me, that is not going to happen. I will probably stay up all night long and think about how it will all play out over and over! And on top of me wanting to see my new baby, I really really miss my other baby! I have never been away from Zion this long and the worse part is that I dont know how much longer this is all going to drag out! Well, I will have new pictures tommorow!

2009-03-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

JOHNNY AND I AT THE BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA ZOO!!

2009-03-21T15:14:00.000-07:00

2009-03-20T16:59:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!! Isn't she beautiful!?!?! We do not have her in our custody right now, but the birth mother did sign her relinquishments today! So we will have her for sure Monday afternoon! We will be sure to post new picutures then!

2009-03-20T16:57:00.000-07:00

2009-03-20T16:52:00.001-07:00

RAYLYNN BREE MENDOZA

2009-03-18T13:08:00.000-07:00

So, it's been a while since we have updated our blog...but we feel like now would be a good time to do that! ;) So most of you know that we have been in the process of adoption now going on two years. Well the process is soon to be over. We got a phone call last Thursday about a birth mother who was due April 24 and was having a baby boy. They said that if we said yes to this child, he would be ours and no other family would be shown. We immediatly said yes and looked forward to the next month of getting ready for our new son. WELL... Come Monday morning at 9:08am I got a phonecall from our agent at H2H, she said she had some news. She said, "The birth mother had her baby already.....and....the baby came out a girl!!" I was shocked about both parts of the news. I immediatly called Johnny and told him he had to come home because we needed to go to Louisiana to pick up our baby. Well now were here. Come to find out there have been some curve balls thrown our way and we won't be able to get our new daughter until Monday. After that we wait for the approval of the ICPC and then hopefully we will be headed home a few days later. We have named her "Raylynn Bre" Ray-after Johnny and I's middle name, Lynn-After my mother and Bre-after Johnny's Mother.

We will try to keep everyone posted as best we can!! Thanks so much for all of your support!

Picture Day???

2008-12-19T11:28:00.001-08:00

And this is how most of the afternoon went!!

How Cute!

2008-12-19T11:21:00.001-08:00

Loving every minute of attention from the camera!

2008-12-19T11:17:00.000-08:00

Zion sure loves to pose for that camera!

Taking Christmas Pictures!

2008-12-19T11:13:00.000-08:00

We took Christmas Pictures this afternoon of all of the cousins. It was quite an adventure. However we did get a few good Pictures of Zion.

Mia Michaels!!!

2008-11-17T10:05:00.000-08:00

So Las Vegas was Amazing!! It was so nice to dance with my idols! Zion had a geat time too...and Mia Michaels seemed to form a strange connection with with her!! The faculty even called her by name in front of the 3,000 people there to come and dance on stage. Zion freaked out, but eventually went up! It was great!

Zion makes a cake!

2008-11-05T13:40:00.000-08:00

Zion had a blast making mini cakes the other day. In fact, yesterday she told her dad to make one...he explained that he didn't know how. She said, "oh thats okay daddy, it's easy, I can teach you!"

Atlanta Georgia

2008-11-05T13:32:00.000-08:00

Johnny and I had a blast in Atlanta! Here we are at the formal awards ceremony we attended.

One day I will do this....

2008-10-26T16:38:00.000-07:00

Well, tons of pictures no...but an update I have. Johnny and I leave for Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday the 29th. Johnny's company is flying us out for an electrical convention. There will be a formal that we have to attend, which I'm slightly nervous about, and a halloween costume party. It will all be pretty fun, seeing as it's paid for. But I'm going to miss Zion. She will be staying with Grammy while we're gone...a whole 5 days! I'm sure I'll miss her more than she'll miss me. Grammy's pretty fun. Well my husband promises me that he's going to get me the internet and as soon as he does, my blog will be fan-damn-tastic. So until then...adios.

Baby Wolves

2008-07-02T16:39:00.001-07:00

Here is Zion playing with the baby wolves at the good ol' Carlsbad Mall. The fact that they were wolves didn't bother her at all! She loved it!